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Grazie wrote on 5/2/2005, 1:15 AM

In the UK we have a Digi Box system. This takes the Analogue broadcast signal and "wrings-out" the digital component. All the channels I jump about on, auto to correct aspect - but BBC 3! Why? No idea . . . Sometimes it hits and sometimes it misses. Mostly it is "squished" thin.

Grazie


farss wrote on 5/2/2005, 1:47 AM
Our DVB is all 16:9 from what I know. If they do broadcast any other AR then it's inserted into a 16:9 frame so there's no way the actual AR gets messed up. Problem seems to be the "I paid for a big screen and I don't want any black bars" mentality in the US.
Europe and Australians seem quite happy with the black bars during a 4:3 program.

Bob.
FuTz wrote on 5/2/2005, 4:35 AM
lol !

...reminds me of "Super Size Me"...
FuTz wrote on 5/2/2005, 4:38 AM
It's like the people who will tell you that 4:3 is "more" since it's "like 16:9 with more picture on top and bottom", while the others will tell them : "you're wrong, 16:9 is like 4:3 with more picture on the sides"...

Which leads to the reflexion: " when the hell will they move on to circle-screens?"
JJKizak wrote on 5/2/2005, 5:27 AM
It's amazing to me that in the last 100 years the lens makers and movie people have spent billions of dollars trying to reduce linearity distortion to less than 1 % and in about 1 years time all of that has gone down the drain. People seem to be content watching short fat people on the screen, ovals that should be circles, varigating short fat images constantly changing during pans as you approach the sides of the screen, and broads with big gigunda you know whats distorted to the bounds of insanity. They should have a blinking full screen message stating that you have selected the wrong aspect ratio and if you continue the tv will self- destruct.

JJK
John_Cline wrote on 5/2/2005, 6:44 AM
The most common answer I've heard to that is, "I don't care if everyone is short and fat, I paid $XXXX for my widescreen TV and I want to use every square inch of it."
Quryous wrote on 5/2/2005, 6:49 AM
Those circular screens were quite popular back in the 40's and early 50's. Quite the thing, at 5 to 9 in inches across. No phony diagonal measurements, either. Nothing like honesty in advertising.
p@mast3rs wrote on 5/2/2005, 6:56 AM
"broads with big gigunda"

Do I even want to know what these are?
BillyBoy wrote on 5/2/2005, 8:14 AM
I thought "gigunda" were hot peppers you put on a beef sandwich.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 5/2/2005, 9:09 AM
I don't care about the black bars. Never have. :) That's why I still own my old 4:3 monitor. Sure, it had black bars on top/bottom, but if I had a widescreen TV they'd be on the sides, unless the widescreen show/movie is at a different ratio then the TV. Then there's still bars on the top bottm.

Can't ever win... :)
Xander wrote on 5/2/2005, 9:33 AM
Interestingly, a few of my friends and I were watching a DVD last week. It looked like the Cr video channel was flickering on and off occasionally due to a faulty connector. Do you think any of my friends noticed? No, not one of the them.